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If Europe has very high unemployment rate for 2nd generation of migrants who grow up in European values , and perhaps as the Pope has suggested, it is important that conditions in the countries where the migrants come from need to be improved so people do not have to risk their life to leave, doing that would provide work opportunities for the 2nd generation who may share the same culture as well as sharing the values that make Europe. Just some brainstorming.

"those who voted to remain in the EU. They declare that Britain must plunge ahead, because that was “the will of the people”"

That is by far the dumbest thing I can imagine! Why on earth would you start supporting the very opposite of your own views?...just because some majority thinks differently? Majorities mean nothing! Truth matters!...honesty matters!

You know..people who say that 'some other people' can't deal with the metric system so 'therefore we cannot move to it' are the very people responsible for it not being implement! It is just an excuse for not taking responsibility to fight for change. The same with Brexit. It is not inevitable. Things can change and if you don't speak your honest to god truth about what you really think you are a bleeding coward that deserves to live a long and miserable live.

As an observer from the continent I am most surprised by the lack of plans from the Brexiteers.What is it going to be ? A Hongkong or Singapore on the North Sea ?I am sure it will be quite a job to disengage from the EU.But then, what will be next ?

You cannot blame only the Brexit crowd. Brussels is just as clueless about what it wants.

Patten claims that "You can be in a customs union without a border, or outside a customs union with a border.".

That is a big problem as at the same time the EU is constantly expanding its borders and creating new outer borders. First this led to war in former Yugoslavia (Croatia and Slovenia wanted to secede because they could become EU members fast) and now it is having the same harmful effects in the former Soviet Union. Internally we see harmful effects too: it would have been much better if we had mechanisms to loosen the ties to countries like Greece and Italy.

So, rather than believe it is impossible I believe it is a good chance for the EU to finally get serious about more flexible mechanisms.

There is mayhem, and it has been created by Patten and his buddies, who backed Heath's idea that the day of the nation state is over without bothering to get public support for the proposition. That was in 1972. Truck loads of EU laws later, where the UK public was kept in the dark, came retribution day. May glided unelected into an office far, far beyond her limited talents. The result of June 23 is not accepted by nearly everyone in Whitehall and Westminster. Result: see my blog, in parallel agreement to Pattenhttps://storybookreview.wordpress.com/2018/05/28/whitehall-and-westminster-will-not-do-not-want-and-cannot-deliver-the-result-of-the-june-23-2016-referendum/

Delusional or deliberately misleading? Do Liam Fox, Boris Johnson, Jacob R-Mogg, David Davies and the group of other vociferous backbenchers such as John Redwood and Ian D-Smith actually believe that there are better, more lucrative deals to be made with Peru and Bolivia etc, or is it ideology and personal furtherance?

You are probably correct. There will be mayhem. I think the Pound drops, food riots the lot. From which an emergency government led by a strongman could arise.But. Do you really think the EU is a viable project? Would you acknowledge The Appalling Failure of the European Commission In its execution of a noble idear?If the majority of mp's wanted to leave we would have strong government- probably not May - Then Barnier would have a very different attitude. What do you think the future of the UK is?Dependant on foreign investment which comes at the expense of ever rising overseas payments. Selling everything from companies to property and services and accepting money laundering throughout. And then we are dependant on immigrants and rapidly rising population to save money on our own education. I could go on.BREXIT!! It is just a step along the way to serious trouble caused by elites ignorance and arrogance.

The EUSSR has lost any pretense of legitimacy and is dying. The decision of Sergio Mattarella to veto the finance minister proposed by the elected government of Italy was the final straw. Democracy in Europe is over. China now has a more democratic government than much of Europe. The UK was wise to leave.

As Patten points out, the UK runs a large trade deficit with Europe. Europe has too much too lose if it blocks UK exports. The UK should trade with Europe (as it always has) and avoid submitting to the anti-democratic tyranny of Brussels.

While I agree with the majority of the article, the idea we should just wish our children better luck in finding governmental leaders seems a little too dismissive of our responsibilities. There is a need for senior politicians, business leaders and diplomats to take a more structured approach to replacing the current leadership of both major parties NOW .. not waiting until it is too late. Whether this calls for a unity party - or a move to have current MPs answer to their electorate as to how they can be relied upon to vote if given a free facility, we need to move towards a change prior to March, 2019.

Despite the fact that the author was very supportive of this government, of its policies and of its leadership (up until recently), the answer to his question is obvious really, "A new General Election". If this new General Election is yet again hyjacked by the known few (like mostly everywhere else), one should keep on going to the nation until the wish of the majority of the electorate (people) is granted. The markets may not like the outcome, but they will learn to live with it. When the 2008 financial crisis erupted in the Summer of 2008, Obama was asked by a journalist, what shall you do about the markets, B. Obama's answer was: they will correct themselves in due course and that is exactly what happened.